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Gig Economy Project – As Getir’s empire rapidly shrinks, workers plot a global strike

August 24, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The Turkish grocery delivery platform’s problems are generating steep lay-offs and deteriorating working conditions for those who remain, pushing workers to get organised internationally. The Gig Economy Project is a BRAVE NEW EUROPE media network […]

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EU politics

Gig Economy Project – Has Austria’s collective bargaining system tamed the food delivery platforms? Interview with Robert Walasinski

August 11, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The Gig Economy Project speaks to Robert Walasinski about whether the emergence of the food delivery sector in Austria has disrupted the country’s traditional system of collective bargaining. Interview available as a podcast or in […]

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The urban dimension in food delivery struggle: The story of the Riders Union Bologna

July 13, 2023 Ben Wray 0

This interview with Maurilio Pirone is available as a podcast or in written text form. The Gig Economy Project is a BRAVE NEW EUROPE media network for gig workers in Europe. Click here to find out more […]

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Gig Economy Project – ILO economist: ‘Platforms are not delivering the women’s empowerment they promised’

July 3, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The World Bank and the World Economic Forum have promoted ‘digital entrepreneurship’ as the answer to increase female employment and tackle gender inequality, but digital labour platforms are re-producing the same problems as traditional labour […]

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Gig Economy Project – Ridehail bosses call for EU action after Spain declares taxis a ‘public service’

June 28, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Law comes on the eve of Spain’s General Election in response to the Court of Justice of the EU ruling earlier this month The Gig Economy Project is a BRAVE NEW EUROPE media network for […]

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Gig Economy Project – Spanish study finds Uber, Bolt and Cabify charge customers more in poor neighbourhoods than rich ones

March 29, 2023 Ben Wray 0

First-of-its-kind study also claims that private hire platforms in Spain indirectly price fix and break labour laws. Read the full report in English here. A ground-breaking study examining the algorithms of private hire platforms in […]

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Konrad Bleyer-Simon: Another Internet is Possible

December 30, 2022 Ben Wray 0

How the internet became a tool for profit, and how to change it. Cross-posted from Green European Journal Few would dispute that the early years of the internet were promising. But exactly when those early […]

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Ben Wray: The Ministry for the Future – book review

September 25, 2023 0

Kim Stanley Robinson’s acclaimed climate novel (2020, Orbit Books) has been praised far and wide, from Andreas Malm to Barack Obama. Robinson tells a gripping story about what our near future may look like, underpinned […]

EU politics

Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project by Hans Kundnani

September 23, 2023 0

Book Review by Peter Ramsay Liberals and leftists were quick to denounce the vote to leave the EU as an expression of racist nationalism. It was a lazy slander for which there was little evidence […]

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